Khmer Rouge Songs

[Red Future]

They seem to have a haunting feel to them in retrospect of the Failed Revolution in Cambodia.I will post a few.The style is quite distinct.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ko9wikf_RBc&feature=related
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TRPkyttpPAw&feature=related
The last one was sung at the 1977 Congress I think
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu8tNkLgAC0&feature=related

There are a lot more Youtube clips and it is really interesting footage, just thought I would share my findings.

[Sir Comradical]

It's no Red Army Choir...

[milk]

All those songs are from the Documentation Center of Cambodia (http://www.dccam.org/Archives/Musics/Music.htm) (DC-CAM) website. I think most, if not all, are tape recordings of Radio Phnom Penh broadcasts made during the DK regime, hence the female announcer before some of them start playing.

[Red Future]

All those songs are from the Documentation Center of Cambodia (http://www.dccam.org/Archives/Musics/Music.htm) (DC-CAM) website. I think most, if not all, are tape recordings of Radio Phnom Penh broadcasts made during the DK regime, hence the female announcer before some of them start playing.

Yeah I had noticed she was a recurring feature of them

[Ismail]

You forgot the national anthem: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8pWhnRaxDI

It's pretty unique as far as anthems go.

Also had a fairly bloody set of lyrics:

The bright red blood
Was spilled over the towns and over the plain of Kampuchea, our motherland,
The blood of our good workers and farmers and of
Our revolutionary combatants, of both men and women.
Their blood produced a great anger and the courage
To contend with heroism.
On the 17th of April, under the revolutionary banner,
Their blood freed us from the state of slavery.
Hurrah for the glorious 17th of April!
That wonderful victory had greater significance....